viii, 408 pages : 24 cm

Women, Sport, and Culture features 24 selections from various feminist positions that examine the relation between sport and gender. The articles serve as a marker of where feminist sport studies has been as a field and a guidepost for what may be the most promising theoretical directions in the future. This comprehensive collection of articles is organized into five sections: part I introduces and provides an overview of feminist theories that have examined gender, women, and sport; part II addresses the gendered organizational order of sport and explores the practices through which women in institutionalized sport are managed; part III explores how certain practices associated with sport actively degrade women and how women have alternately appropriated and opposed what they perceive to be oppressive and unjust practices; part IV examines the role of the media in circulating and legitimizing dominant meanings of sport, women, gendered bodies, and sexuality; and part V interrogates heterosexism and homophobia in sport

Includes bibliographical references and index

Resisting the canon : feminist cultural studies, sport, and technologies of the body / Cheryl L. Cole -- Women in sport in ideology / Paul Willis -- Sport and the maintenance of masculine hegemony / Lois Bryson -- Sports and male domination : the female athlete as contested ideological terrain / Michael A. Messner -- African-American women and competitive sport, 1920-1960 / Cindy Himes Gissendanner -- Politics, public policy, and Title IX : some limitations of liberal feminism / Mary A. Boutilier, Lucinda F. SanGiovanni -- The status of women in intercollegiate athletics / R. Vivian Acosta, Linda Jean Carpenter -- Gender and the coaching profession / Annelies Knoppers -- Unequal exchange and exploitation in college sport : the case of the female athlete / Elaine Blinde -- A postmodern paradox? : cheerleaders at women's sporting events / Laurel Davis -- Sport as a male preserve : notes on the social sources of masculine identity and its transformations / Eric Dunning

Toward a feminist alternative to sport as a male preserve / Nancy Theberge -- Subcultural subversions : comparing discourses on sexuality in men's and women's rugby songs / Elizabeth E. Wheatley -- Challenging the hegemony : New Zealand women's opposition to rugby and the reproduction of a capitalist patriarchy / Shona M. Thompson -- Is a diamond forever? : feminist transformations of sport / Susan Birrell, Diana M. Richter -- Gender stereotyping in televised sports / Margaret Carlisle Duncan [and others] -- Active women, media representations, and ideology / Margaret MacNeill -- Work routines in newspaper sports departments and the coverage of women's sports / Nancy Theberge, Alan Cronk -- Visible difference and flex appeal : the body, sex, sexuality, and race in the Pumping iron films / Christine Anne Holmlund -- Personal best : women in love / Linda Williams

Crushes, competition, and closets : the emergence of homophobia in women's physical education / Susan Cahn -- Feminist bodybuilding / Anne Balsamo -- The embodiment of gender : discipline, domination, and empowerment / David Whitson -- Double fault : Renee Richards and the construction and naturalization of difference / Susan Birrell, Cheryl L. Cole

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